Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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All soils are not fertile.

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